David O. Russell Moves From ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’ to ‘Old St. Louis’

David O. Russell is removing himself from Pride and Prejudice and Zombies in favor of working with another constantly hungry creature — Vince Vaughn. Natalie Portman couldn’t work out her schedule to align with O. Russell’s, and now he needs to hop on Old St. Louis.

But it looks like she won’t be the only starlet who won’t have the opportunity to be berated by the nutbar director. Scarlett Johansson had to drop out of Old St. Louis due to her own scheduling conflicts. We’ll keep you posted when the search for a new Pride and Prejudice and Zombies director begins, but we feel that the gig should go to Troma’s Lloyd Kaufman. He pretty much invented and mastered that genre as it is. (NY Mag)